“Love without sacrifice is like theft”

“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur”

“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”

“Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone”

“Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse”

“I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love.”

“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing”